Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski
Polish priest and scouting leader (1913-1945)
Feast: 22 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski was born at Chełmża in northern Poland on 22 January 1913, entered the seminary at eighteen and was ordained on 4 March 1937. From 1938 he served as curate in Toruń.
During the war he was taken to various prisons and camps, but never failed in faith or in his ministry; struck by illness while caring for the sick, he died in 1945 after long suffering.
The miracles
As a martyr, beatified without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A young priest who caught his death nursing fellow prisoners.
The cause
Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Diocese of Torun: Blessed Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Wincenty Frelichowski
- Wikidata Q7606331 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.